Wild Tried to Pry Robert Thomas Loose at the Deadline

Minnesota kicked the tires on one of the league’s cleaner center targets before the deadline, and that alone tells you how aggressive the Wild were willing to be. Robert Thomas is the kind of player front offices circle in red ink because centers like him do not exactly grow on trees when the pressure is on. The fact that the Wild went there says plenty about where they saw their roster and what they thought it might need.